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Inyo rabbitbrush, sticky leaf rabbitbrush, yellow rabbitbrush

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yellow rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 10–50 cm. Plants 10–25 cm.
Stems

glabrous.

glabrous (puberulous).

Leaf

blades green, 1-nerved, filiform, terete, 10–30 × 0.5–1 mm, not twisted, margins obscurely involute, not noticeably ciliate, apices acicular, faces hairy.

blades ascending to spreading, green, 1-nerved, narrowly lanceolate, (10–)14–20 × 1–2 mm, flat, not twisted, margins obscurely involute, entire, not noticeably ciliate, apices cuspidate, faces glabrous.

Involucres

± turbinate to obconic, 5–6 mm.

cylindric to campanulate, (4–)5–5.6 mm.

Disc florets

3–5;

corollas 3.5–5 mm, lobes 1–1.2 mm.

3–4(–5);

corollas 3.5–4.5 mm, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

14–24 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 weak vertical ranks, (spreading at maturity) green to brown subapical patch, midnerves glandular-thickened distally, convex or weakly keeled, broadly linear to linear-oblong, unequal, margins scarious, eciliate or distally erose-ciliolate, apices sharply acute or apiculate, flat, faces glabrous.

14–18 in 3–4 series, in spirals or weak vertical ranks, stramineous, green to brown subapical patches obscure midnerves evident distally or obscure, ± convex or weakly keeled, obovate to oblong or spatulate, unequal, margins scarious, eciliate or distally obscurely ciliolate, faces glabrous.

Heads

in rounded cymiform arrays.

in broad, rounded, corymbiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. planifolius

Phenology Flowering summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Desert slopes in granitic sand Dry sandy soils, sparse juniper slopes
Elevation 1300–2000 m (4300–6600 ft) 1600+ m (5200+ ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 192. FNA vol. 20, p. 192.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Chrysothamnus > Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Chrysothamnus > Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
Sibling taxa
C. viscidiflorus subsp. lanceolatus, C. viscidiflorus subsp. planifolius, C. viscidiflorus subsp. puberulus, C. viscidiflorus subsp. viscidiflorus
C. viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris, C. viscidiflorus subsp. lanceolatus, C. viscidiflorus subsp. puberulus, C. viscidiflorus subsp. viscidiflorus
Synonyms C. axillaris
Name authority (D. D. Keck) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 40: 118. (1980) L. C. Anderson: Madroño 17: 223, fig. 2c. (1964)
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